L2/01-085

Ideographic Description Properties

M. Davis, 2000-01-31

The ideographic description characters have a specific grammar, described on
p 369. The characters and categories are only described in the text, and do not
have machine-readable data to back them up. I propose
adding the following properties to the UCD in Unicode 3.2 to properly describe these characters.
Having these in the UCD will make it simpler to update future versions of the
standard, and make it less likely that people will transcribe the data
incorrectly.

The versions of the properties are coordinated with a simplified BNF description: